I hope this thread is not against the rules and I hope it generates some interest. I'd like to use it to document, without spoilers but with show descriptions stuff that's currently on the UK (At any given moment). There's so much good stuff that never reaches here.

My list could be endless but what I've recently watched

* Vera (Season 3): Grumpy northern detective, similarities to Morse
* The new season of Whitechapel
* What Remains: A 4 part mystery, not as good but similar to Broadchurch)
* Moone Boy, a fantastic, light hearted 30 min comedy starring Chris O'Dowd of IT Crowd fame, though it's really about the boy.
* New Tricks: It's in it's last season and really not that good anymore
* Good Cop, a dark cop-gone-bad show starring Warren Brown from Luther
* Life of Crime, about a policewoman at 3 points in her career over 20 or so years
* Scott and Bailey (season 3 I think). 2 female detectives

As you can see I prefer cop/drame to comedies but they are all good shows.

Not currently airing, but if you have the means to get it, check out "Black Mirror," which is a sci-fi anthology series akin to "The Twilight Zone." There are only 6 episodes so far (they've done 2 series of 3 episodes each). It'd be rated TV-MA if it aired in the U.S., so don't watch with your kids.

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Not currently airing, but if you have the means to get it, check out "Black Mirror," which is a sci-fi anthology series akin to "The Twilight Zone." There are only 6 episodes so far (they've done 2 series of 3 episodes each). It'd be rated TV-MA if it aired in the U.S., so don't watch with your kids.

For reasons I cannot explain I have never been able to bring myself to watch them. I have them downloaded but no watching.

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Best British shows ever:
Coupling (sitcom that everybody derides as being like Friends.. it vaguely is, but is also raunchy, probably even more than Two Broke Girls.. but still very funny)
Blake's 7 -- The only sci fi show that I think is as GOOD as Star Trek.

For anyone who prefers not to watch shows by other means, New Tricks is showing on some PBS stations. The next episode in my Guide Data is #704 OAD 9/30/10.

Also, though the shows aren't British, if the OP likes cop shows, I recommend the adaptations of the stories featuring Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Those also turn up on PBS from time to time. And I assume you've already seen Death in Paradise?

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Shetland - The murder-mystery is set against the stunning backdrop of the Shetland Islands and centres on Detective Jimmy Perez played by Douglas Henshall.

Murder on the Home Front- drama series based on on the memoirs of Molly Lefebure, the secretary to the Home Office Pathologist, Lennox Collins, and is set during the London Blitz of World War II. Together, they hunt down a killer who is terrorizing through the streets.

Line of Duty - Stars Lenny James - drama series which takes a look at the world of police corruption

Frankie - Frankie is a medical drama that follows Frankie Maddox (Eve Myles), a district nurse whose work always appears to take priority over her personal life.

The Fall - Starring Gillian Anderson - In the five part drama series made and set in Northern Ireland, Gillian Anderson stars as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson who is brought in from the London Metropolitan Police to help catch the killer when a murder in Belfast remains unsolved.

Case Histories An unusual take on the detective genre featuring Jackson Brodie, who has served with the army and the police, and is now a private investigator.

Father Brown (2013) Based on the stories by G. K. Chesterton, this period drama features Mark Williams as the eponymous crime solving Roman Catholic priest.

Best British shows ever:
Coupling (sitcom that everybody derides as being like Friends.. it vaguely is, but is also raunchy, probably even more than Two Broke Girls.. but still very funny)
Blake's 7 -- The only sci fi show that I think is as GOOD as Star Trek.

Cracker
Absolutely Fabulous
Prime Suspect
Blackadder
The Good Life (aka Good Neighbors in the US)
Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister
Fawlty Towers
any Alan Partridge series
Father Ted
Inspector Morse
House of Cards (long before Netflix)
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
Doc Martin

'Shadow Line' - A sophisticated conspiracy thriller in seven parts that brings to life a cinematic world of blurred morality and the conflicted characters who inhabit it, it features a star-studded cast, including: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Sir Antony Sher and Stephen Rea.

'Hunted' - Hunted delves into the world of espionage as Melissa George is cast as a operative that has to fight against her own team as they try to kill her. Not knowing where to turn, she must find out who she can trust and those she cannot. From the creators of The X Files comes a eight-episode drama that goes deeper into the secret world than few others have been before.

'The Fades' Paul (Iain De Caestecker) is the reluctant teenage hero of The Fades. He's haunted by apocalyptic dreams that neither his therapist, best friend and fellow social outcast, Mac (Daniel Kaluuya), nor his unsympathetic and much cooler twin sister, Anna (Lily Loveless) can provide answers for. Adding to his terrifying dreams, Paul starts to see spirits of the dead, known as "The Fades," all around him but they can't be seen, smelt, heard, or touched by other humans. When an embittered and vengeful Fade, Polus, finds a way to be human again, Paul, Mac, and their loved ones are all in the eye of the storm. The fate of humanity now rests in Paul's hands as he has to stop Polus - and all of the dead - from breaking back into the world and attacking the human race.